JBOD - Fresh install, first boot flawless, second boot raid is missing

ESXi 6.5 - fresh install
PCI passthrough of a IBM m1015 in IT mode
4 WD red 4TB (raid 6)

First boot was flawless, transferred 4TB to the raid 6 I created. Shut down the JBOD case and installed new fans to make it quieter. Now after rebooting I have no array.

My question is this. Since I'm doing PCI Passthrough from another server through external cables to a CSE-PTJBOD-CB1 board... what is the proper shutdown and startup sequence? I assumed, shutting down the vm in ESXi and then simply pushing the power button on the case would be fine... Apparently not. Below is what I see for the logs.

At a loss for what happened, or what the proper way to shut down an external storage JBOD would be in this senario so I'm not corrupting data.

#lspci -k (shows the m1015 like it should within the VM)

trimmed syslog to just when the box was turned on.

syslog.txt

Boot image of VMware

no takers?

If ESXi is installed, pci passthrough is enabled, and the disks were pulled into the vm, raid 6 was created... I'm at a loss as to why shutting down the VM and powering off the server and back up, restarting OMV VM would have it think there's no disks...